Proposed Improvements for REsource LOcation And Discovery (RELOAD)
draft-petithuguenin-p2psip-reload-bis-00

Abstract

This document proposes some improvements for [RELOAD].

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Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Terminology
• 3. Client connected to bootstrap node
• 4. Service Name and Path
• 5. Multiple Node-IDs for self-signed certificates
• 6. Re-sign certificates
• 7. Security Considerations
• 8. IANA Considerations
• 9. Acknowledgements
• 10. References
• 10.1. Normative References
• 10.2. Informative References
• Appendix A. Release notes
• Author's Address

1. Introduction

This document presents some extensions to RELOAD. The RELOAD authors are free to take whatever they want in this document. Anything else will be either proposed as separate extensions or in reload-bis after RELOAD is published as an RFC.

2. Terminology

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].

3. Client connected to bootstrap node

Section 3.2.1 of [RELOAD] describes how a client can connect to an overlay, either to its responsible peer or to an arbitrary peer, but does not describes the case where the client just wants to connect to a bootstrap node with a certificate containing multiple Node-IDs.

This documents permits this, by having the client immediately sending a Ping with a wildcard Node-ID, and the bootstrap node waiting for receiving the Ping if the (D)TLS connection contains a remote certificate with multiple Node-IDs.

4. Service Name and Path

Section 10.2 of [RELOAD] uses a Service Name of "p2psip-enroll" and a path of "/.well-known/p2psip-enroll".

RELOAD is now a generic P2P protocol, no longer tied to SIP so this document defines the Service Name "p2p-enroll" as an alias for "p2psip-enroll" and "/.well-known/p2p-enroll" as an alias for "/.well-known/p2psip-enroll".

5. Multiple Node-IDs for self-signed certificates

Section 10.3.1 does not define an algorithm to create self-signed certificates that contain multiple Node-IDs.

This document permits to create self-signed certificates by prepending the index (from 1 to the number of Node-IDs needed) as a 4 bytes big endian integer to the public key of the user before applying the digest.

6. Re-sign certificates

Section 10.5 explains that the enrollment server must return certificates that contain Node-IDs that are cryptographically random, preventing the possibility to provide new certificates for Node-IDs already assigned, for example because a certificate will expire soon.

This documents permits to extend the lifetime of a Node-ID by reissuing new certificates. This is done by sending the old certificate in the request to the enrollment server instead of the certificate signing request. The enrollment server MUST still check that the username and password are consistent with the certificate. If the nodeids parameter is different from the value used when issuing the previous certificate, then the number of Node-IDs in the new certificate must be adjusted, by either removing Node-IDs or by assigning new Node-IDs.

This mechanism does not permit to change the RSA keys and keep the same Node-ID(s), but this is consistent with the self-signed certificates mechanism that does not permit this either.

7. Security Considerations

TBD

8. IANA Considerations

TBD

9. Acknowledgements

This document was written with the xml2rfc tool described in [RFC2629].

10. References

10.1. Normative References

10.2. Informative References

Appendix A. Release notes

This section must be removed before publication as an RFC.

Author's Address